On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Graham Leggett wrote:

> Joshua Slive wrote:
>
> > How do you know if a virtual host is "local to the config"?  Many people
> > rely on some of the "fallback" virtual host behavior to host sites without
> > mentioning them in a ServerName/ServerAlias directive.
>
> If you've turned on forward proxy with "ProxyRequests on", then I think
> it's safe to assume that "forward proxy" should be the fallback
> behaviour in the absence of ServerName and ServerAlias.
>
> The transparent proxy support would only work if the forward proxy was
> on, so this seems safe to me.

Are you willing to break upgrades for people who currently use fall-back
virtual hosts in combination with a forward proxy?

(I'm not a proxy expert, so perhaps there is a technical reason people
can't do this now.  But according to the documentation, I see no reason
to believe that.)

Joshua.

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